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...heard an interesting story from Iowa, a follow-up to our Jan. 31 cover on the Big Freeze. The Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when...
...cold soak" also plagued the Midwest's farmers. Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...ability to run the Justice Department. Despite Young's appointment, blacks were demanding wider representation. As if to prove that he was doing his best to satisfy them, Carter took the unusual step of publicly naming three blacks who had taken themselves out of consideration for various reasons: Vernon Jordan, National Urban League executive director, who said he was too "committed to the black people and the Urban League" to consider a job; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who said he was "flattered" but was determined to run for reelection; and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who said he thought...
...verdict-which casts doubt on all of Bronfman's claims about the kidnaping-may not permit him to slip peacefully into obscurity. Several jurors at trial's end openly charged him with engineering his own abduction. Said one. Mrs. Amelia Dricot, a house wife from Mount Vernon, N.Y.: "I think he planned the whole operation." As early as the first evening of the jury's deliberation, eight jurors voted to acquit the defendants, two wanted to convict, and two remained undecided...
...Burt's work go unchallenged during his lifetime? Says Philip Vernon, a collaborator of Burt's now at Alberta's University of Calgary: "There were certainly grave doubts, although nobody dared to put them into print because Burt was so powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...